Brian Coffey: Producer at Sigma Films

Brian Coffey started out as a production assistant on Last King of Scotland and has steadily moved up the ranks working as a post-production co ordinator on Red Road and Hallam Foe. You Can Do Athletics, BTW – We Are The Physics music video, earned him a BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award nomination. He has since gone on to produce serial award winning short film I Love Luci (BAFTA Scotland Best Short, Clermont-Ferrand Prix des Mediatheques amongst many others), as well as garnering associate producer credits on feature productions Donkeys, Tonight You’re Mine (You Instead) and Perfect Sense. He is currently developing a number of features with Sigma Films and director Colin Kennedy. Citadel his debut feature, which he produced with Katie Holly from Blinder Films, won the Audience Award in the Midnighter’s Section at SXSW in 2012, and continued to blaze across the festival circuit garnering a further 10 awards. In 2013 he co-produced Starred Up, starring Jack O’Connell, Ben Mendelshon and Rupert Friend, which is having its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.